Test 5 · ★★ · Digestion: the journey of a sandwich
Ella laughs while drinking juice and coughs and splutters. What happened?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella · What happens: laugh, drink, happen · To what, where: juice
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 67 «Digestion: the journey of a sandwich» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Ella laughs while drinking juice and coughs and splutters.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 drinking | mark |
| 4 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 laughs | advcl |
| 5 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drinking | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 coughs | cc |
| 7 | coughs | cough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 juice | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 splutters | cc |
| 9 | splutters | splutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 coughs | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Ella | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | Ella not said here | juice and coughs and splutters | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What happened?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Her teeth bit the juice by mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bit | nsubj |
| 3 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 juice | det |
| 5 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 mistake | case |
| 7 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past | Her teeth | the juice | by mistake | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent juice=Patient by mistake=Location |
Option 2
The juice went down into her stomach far too fast and bounced back up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 juice | det |
| 2 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 stomach | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fast | advmod |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bounced | cc |
| 12 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 up | advmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 bounced | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the juice | her stomach | down, fast property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | bounce back | past | the juice not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The epiglottis did not cover her windpipe in time and juice slipped in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 epiglottis | det |
| 2 | epiglottis | epiglottis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cover | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cover | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cover | advmod |
| 5 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 slipped | ccomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 windpipe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | windpipe | windpipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cover | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cover | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 juice | cc |
| 11 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | conj |
| 12 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 slipped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cover | past · do-support | the epiglottis | epiglottis's windpipe | time | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme windpipe=Destination | |||
| 2 | slip in | past | tree rules |
Option 4
The juice was far too sweet for her throat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 juice | det |
| 2 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sweet | cop |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sweet | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 sweet | advmod |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 throat | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 throat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweet | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the juice | for her throat; far, sweet property | tree rules |
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